The U.S. Department of Education, along with the departments of Justice, Homeland Security, and Health and Human Services has released a new planning guide to help school districts develop and maintain emergency operations plans (EOPs). The guide, which comes amid a rise in school shootings in the United States, delivers on a recommendation from the Federal Commission on School Safety to provide schools with resources and assistance in develop...

Andrew DeFoe, Business Development Manager at AWS, explores how universities are using a cloud-first approach to modernize their desktop delivery strategy in order to meet the needs of secure desktops and high-performance lab application access for their students, faculty and staff.

Join us for our Amazon Web Services Spotlight Series to learn about best practices for moving your infrastructure to the cloud, as well as migrating and modernizing your Windows workload with AWS! You will uncover how to successfully migrate to the cloud and overcome the challenges organizations face when modernizing, as well as best practices for customers migrating Microsoft workloads to AWS and migrating SQL Server databases to the cloud. D...

2019 Theme: Becoming Expo Learning The new designed-for-digital education enterprise would reverse engineer the analog (people and place) aspects into a digital-first entity. It would flip to digital. It would flip to workflow instead of industrial-age delivery models. Such a redesign would fit current expectations because of what people experience in other sectors, where there is an App for everything. It would emphasize personalizing learnin...

Join CCISDA at their Fall Conference in Squaw Valley as they come together to learn, discuss, network, and ELEVATE their game! The California County Information Services Directors Association (CCISDA) is the official organization of the county information technology directors and chief information officers in the state of California. CCISDA represents all of California's 58 counties in the area of county government information technology. CCIS...

Attend for a Day of Discussion and a Deep-dive into the Next Stage of School Transformation. Schools are under tremendous pressure to transition to digital, and it's not from the inside. Learning Counsel is hosting a unique discussion for schools on institutional and classroom leadership. Trends and research set the tone for the day with the first briefing, and local leaders are asked to join to also share between workshops. So much is happeni...

OSHEAN, Inc. (Ocean State Higher Education Economic Development and Administrative Network) delivers carrier class optical transport, advanced IP-based networking and innovative cloud solutions to Community Anchor Institutions and the communities they serve. OSHEAN creates trusted connections for peer-to-peer interactions that lead to more efficient, effective and collaborative information technology environments. With an extensive member netw...

Does application performance hinder student outcomes? How does your organization's approach to managing investments in application and infrastructure performance map to the success of your students? Join Amazon Web Services (AWS), Kinect Consulting, and Carahsoft on October 31 as we dive deeper into the important questions you and your institution are asking. During this webcast, subject matter experts will discuss: Where automation and analyt...

Every day you undertake the challenge of training your government workforce to maintain compliance, work skills, and relevance, and with all the resources you put into training, you want to make sure the message sticks. Join us in Chicago, Illinois, to discover how understanding the modern adult learner and identifying their style of learning will affect your content mediums and delivery styles. Whether you teach in-person, online, or in a ble...

This preeminent cyber resilience event takes a "whole community" approach, bringing together the private and public sectors, owners and operators, cybersecurity experts, students, and community members to network and train together to defend our infrastructure from ever-evolving cyber threats. The event with be hosted by the University of Oregon and Lane Community College on the UO's Eugene campus, in partnership with the Cybersecurity and Inf...